Cherry, Muffins • • 22 Comments
The Story:
My grandmother loved to bake when I was younger. But she wouldn’t make cookies or cakes, she always made pies and cobblers. Her cherry cobbler was what I remember most. The combination of the sweet cherries and the almond extract always seems to bring back a flood of memories. Granted, the memories include family reunions in the wilderness where dirt infiltrated everything except the food, but warm cherries just bring a sense of comfort.
Me and cobblers don’t get along too well, but muffins and I are best friends.
Printable Recipe
Ingredients:
1 can cherry pie filling
1 teaspoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon almond extract
1 ½ cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon soda
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
2 tablespoon butter, melted and cooled
1 ¼ cups buttermilk (or milk and lemon juice)
½ cup cinnamon sugar
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Separate 1 cup of cherries from cherry pie filling. Mix in lemon juice and almond extract.
3. In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
4. Whisk together egg, butter and buttermilk in another bowl.
5. Mix together wet and dry ingredients. Do not over mix.
6. Fill greased muffins tins or muffins cups half full. Place 2-3 cherries on top and then cover with more batter.
7. Spoon cinnamon sugar over of muffins.
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
* If you don’t have buttermilk (which I didn’t), you can use 1 tablespoon lemon juice and just short of 1 ¼ cup of milk.
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~Judy~ saysMy grandmother always made cherry cobbler too. I can't wait to try these.
Thanks!
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- Sarah says
I tried these last night and we couldn't stop eating them. They were so yummy, and easy to make. My 4 year old and 2 year old loved putting the cherries in the middle. Thanks for the recipe!
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- Karissa says
Do you think I could use strawberries instead of cherries? Your blueberry pancake cupcakes are the only “muffins” my daughter will eat! We’re trying to see if she’ll eat another one of your wonderful creations 🙂
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- Lizzy Mae says
Yes, you can use strawberries. But use small ones of slice them into the batter. You don’t want them to fall to the bottom of the batter when they bake, so just make sure they aren’t too heavy.
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- Karissa says
Thank you 🙂 I appreciate you taking the time to reply!
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- Renee says
My grandmother always made peach cobbler…and I am positive these muffins would work well with canned peaches instead of cherries…however I adore cherries, and cherry cobbler, (actually any kind of cobbler )…. so I will have to make both!!!! ^.^
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- Amy says
So you don’t use the filling, just the cherries right?
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- Lizzy Mae Early says
Right!!!
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- Christi says
I have a can of raspberrie filling. Any thoughts if they would work?
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- Lizzy Mae Early says
yes, that will work to mix in 🙂
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- Amy says
So, I do not use the filling, just the cherries and I add them to each muffin as I fill the cups?
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- Kelly Bea says
Oh my word! Printing now and going to make this afternoon if I have everything! This does make me think of baking with my Mema only we made blackberry cobbler most of the time. So glad I found your blog and added to my fav’s list!
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- Tracie Frock says
I love everything you make especially the cupcakes. I’m trying these muffins this Sunday for my church and also the apple cinnamon cream cheese filled ones. I’m sure they will be just as good as the rest of your stuff is. Thank you for always sharing.
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- tonya says
I have frozen pitted tart cherries that we picked this year, can I use those instead of cherry pie filling?
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- Lizzy Mae Early says
Yes!
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- Mady says
Hi I would love to make these lovely morsels, woul yogurt work instead of the milk?
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- Mady says
Would yogurt work instead of the milk?
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- Sissy says
You did not say where or how to use the rest of the canned filling? Waiting for a reply so I can bake these muffins! THEy sound yummy 😋
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- Lizzy Mae Early says
You can use it to make a mini dump cake!
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- Meena says
How many muffins can you make with one can of filling?
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- Hipster Baker says
1 Dozen.
NOTE: if your cherries are small like in the can I used (about the size of large blueberries), you’ll use more like 4 or 5 in each muffin).Reply
- Jereme says
These turned out terrible for me. The instructions should be more clear. I added the extra filling into the wet ingredients because I wasn’t sure where this went – I should have read the reviews for help on this. The recipe should state specifically that the extra pie filling is left out and should be used for another recipe. This recipe also doesn’t state how many muffins are expected and whether one should leave them in the muffin tin for so long or remove them and place them on a cooling rack. A bit more specificity in the directions would go a long way for this recipe.
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